The Latest Breaking News from Montana

Viad Agrees To Acquire Glacier Raft For Undisclosed Sum

Viad Corp (NYSE:VVI) has agreed to acquire the Glacier Raft Company and related lodging, land, and other assets. Deal terms were not disclosed. Glacier Raft provides guided river rafting trips operating in the heart of Pursuit's West Glacier, Montana operations. It also owns 13 log cabins, a lodge, and a wedding venue located…

Benzinga · Mar 24, 2022

Long waits for Montana state hospital leave psychiatric patients in jail

A woman experiencing delusions sat in Montana’s Cascade County jail for 125 days while waiting for a bed at the state psychiatric hospital. A man with schizophrenia spent 100 days last year in the Flathead County jail on the hospital’s waitlist, at times refusing food and water. A man complaining…

Tribune News Service · Mar 24, 2022

Sick mine workers allege insurer delaying medical payments

Mine workers sickened and killed by toxic asbestos exposure and their heirs are suing a major insurance company for allegedly stalling legal settlements and medical payments

The Independent UK · Mar 21, 2022

Wood burning stoves spark health issues

Officials treat woodsmoke pollution as a public health and environmental justice issue despite opposition

Salon · Mar 13, 2022

Bloom Montana Raises $11M To Scale Business As Cannabis Sales Surge In First Month Of Rec Use

Vertically integrated cannabis company Bloom Montana has closed an $11 million debt financing with Altmore Capital, a senior debt lender focused on the US cannabis industry.

Benzinga · Mar 10, 2022

Octopus ancestors, found in Montana, lived even before dinosaurs, study finds

The 4.7-inch fossil has 10 limbs — not eight — each with two rows of suckers. Scientists, who named the species for President Joe Biden, say it probably lived in a shallow, tropical ocean bay.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 9, 2022

Montana State Tax Guide

Explore Montana's state tax rates for income, sales, property, retirement and more. Learn how Montana compares nationwide.

Kiplinger · Mar 9, 2022

Weird vampire squid-like creature with 10 arms named after US President Joe Biden

Octopus ancestor is the first of its kind identified with 10 functional arms

Wales Online · Mar 8, 2022

Octopus ancestors lived before era of dinosaurs, study shows

Scientists have described the oldest known fossil ancestor of octopuses — an approximately 330 million-year-old specimen found in Montana

The Independent UK · Mar 8, 2022

Meet the ten-armed, 325-million-year-old octopus fossil named after President Joe Biden

In an ancient shallow bay of what is now Montana, the body of an octopus-like creature the size of a fist was buried on the seafloor. Some 325-328 million years later, a new paper published in Nature Communications provides some interesting insights into this mysterious and ancient cephalopod.

The Conversation · Mar 8, 2022